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I expect us to finish between 5th and 7th. If we can break the top 4 or win a trophy, expectations exceeded.
Definitely agree plus right now I'd choose the FA Cup over it too.
Think Virginia's probably right about the League Cup although, I don't know, I still like to know we last won a trophy four years ago. We had a better season than Liverpool last year but in ten or twenty years, people won't be saying "oh yeah, Spurs were fourth", they'll be saying "Liverpool won the League Cup that year".
Well, something like that, you know what I mean anyway.
While I would agree with you, as would many Spurs fans, the problem is that top players wouldnt..
Silverware always beats coming in fourth or third , or so it should anyway
What I would like and what i expect are completely different.
I would love us back in the champions league. I expect us to finish top 6 at worst.
I would like us to win a pot or two. I expect nothing.
What I do expect is development of the team, gelling of the players and the emergence of a proper spirit. Of a proper style of play. This season will be transitional. We shouldn't expect miracles. But we should expect us to be better in may than we are now.
I would love us back in the champions league. I expect us to finish top 6 at worst.
I would like us to win a pot or two. I expect nothing.
What I do expect is development of the team, gelling of the players and the emergence of a proper spirit. Of a proper style of play. This season will be transitional. We shouldn't expect miracles. But we should expect us to be better in may than we are now.
Playing entertaining football. That is all I ever really want to see from Spurs.
I agree with this.
Whilst it would obviously be preferable to get Champions league, Europa is what I expect - for this season at least.
The Europa knock out stages aren't until next Feb. If we can make it through the group with players coming back from injury, a bolstered squad in January and time to adapt to the new system - who knows?
I really hope AVB is given time. The Shaktar game really brought that home to me. Yes they have some qreat players but they had a similar squad the last couple of seasons and were bit of a walkover in the CL. Whats changed? They've had time to learn and master the system they play and the players around them.
Unless we have a Chelsea/City size bank balance we will NEVER get further than fourth by constant manager/squad upheaval. An effective well drilled system makes a team better than the sum of its parts. Only the sugar Daddy teams can bypass this by filling their squads with quality to compensate
Unless we have a Chelsea/City size bank balance we will NEVER get further than fourth by constant manager/squad upheaval. An effective well drilled system makes a team better than the sum of its parts. Only the sugar Daddy teams can bypass this by filling their squads with quality to compensate
Not so sure about this. Liverpool are arguably not in the limelight as much as they were when they were CL regulars, despite what their fans would have you believe. Personally I'd forgotten that they'd even won the League Cup a couple years back.
My expectations have not changed since AVB came in.
I expect us to have a real go at finishing top 4, though whether or not we succeed is of course another story. I expect to be in the mix right up to the end though.
I expect us to be quite inconsistent through the first half of the season, I expect us to improve a lot more after Christmas.
I expect us to take the cups seriously, but again how well we do is another story.
Over all I expect a slow start, improvement and to finish the season REALLY looking forward to the 2013/14 season with high ambitions built upon the way we developed this year.
I expect us to have a real go at finishing top 4, though whether or not we succeed is of course another story. I expect to be in the mix right up to the end though.
I expect us to be quite inconsistent through the first half of the season, I expect us to improve a lot more after Christmas.
I expect us to take the cups seriously, but again how well we do is another story.
Over all I expect a slow start, improvement and to finish the season REALLY looking forward to the 2013/14 season with high ambitions built upon the way we developed this year.
Surprised this hasn't been done already...
Autumn: Windy and wet.
Winter: Bloody freezing, probably a bit of snow around the turn of the year.
Autumn: Windy and wet.
Winter: Bloody freezing, probably a bit of snow around the turn of the year.
Seen as I was definitely in the 'this is a transitional season' camp when AVB joined, personally I'd probably prefer 4th (and winning the Champions League play-off) to a trophy, this season.
As annoying as it is, the kind of players most of us would love to see in lilywhite would turn their noses up at us without Champions League football.
As annoying as it is, the kind of players most of us would love to see in lilywhite would turn their noses up at us without Champions League football.
Arbroath?
I wouldnt say 4th with our squad would be a miracle to be fair though.
People always quote the "Aim High" saying....imo 4th is not aiming high. Its totally realistic, and should be our aim...in fact, I think it is our target again, so the club have set our expectations themselves really.
Agree with that. Our last three finishes prove we've got it in ourselves to be in the top 4 and although we haven't set the world alight yet, we are in contention yet again with key players missing. When they are back and well integrated into the team we will see the real potential of this squad.
I am desperate to see CL footie at WHL again, but at this moment I'd settle for the team to start gelling under AVB and to see some entertaining games. Who knows if that happens we could get 4th as well